Re: [External] : Re: indent-tabs-mode default [was: Representation of the Emacs userbase on emacs-devel]

[Stefan Kangas]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> > You cannot check in custom .dir-locals.el into the project(s)?
> > Surely other tools (like NetBeans) have some common configs in the
> > repository already.
>
> But NetBeans is NetBeans, and not Emacs.  If someone checks in
> .dir-locals.el into a repository, someone reviewing code is sure to
> search '.el', and when he finds that '.el' is a file extension for a
> programming language named 'Emacs Lisp', whoever checked it in will have
> some explaining to do with respect to checking in unapproved code in a
> completely foreign language.

Would the situation be improved if we supported editorconfig
configuration files?[1]

Footnotes:
[1]  https://editorconfig.org/